Origin of Henna. The art of henna (called mehndi in Hindi & Urdu) has been practiced for over 5000 years in Pakistan, India, Africa and the Middle East. There is some documentation that it is over 9000 years old.
ox (plural oxen) 1  An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus). 2  Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
Report Abuse. An oxymoron (plural oxymora or, more commonly, oxymorons) (noun) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms (e.g. deafening silence) to make a point. Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy (sharp) and moros (dull or dumb), which means the word is an oxymoron.Another, similar oxymoron is sophomore, meaning wise fool. Oxymorons are a proper subset of the expressions called contradiction in terms.xymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy (sharp) and moros (dull). The meaning is that which is sharp and dull, thereby designating and also exhibiting an opposition between two adjectives which serve as predicates for one subject. Oxymorons are a proper subset of the expressions called contradictions in terms.